Genus – Kongruenz und Klassifikation: Evidenzen aus dem Zweitspracherwerb des Deutschen

This book takes a new approach to gender acquisition in German as a second language. It sees gender acquisition less as the ability to classify and more as the ability to recognize congruence. This shift in perspective enables new acquisition strategies for childhood L2 learners. These strategies model gender acquisition as a systematic sequence in a process of semantization and grammaticalization.